NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? Another team of Latinx business owners in our community are Alma Hernández and her husband Christian Morales.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Community Development Leadership 52

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Public health professionals and community developers—along with community activists—were having “aha” moments about the linkage between social determinants of health and terrible, systemic health outcomes for people of color and those living on low incomes.

Health 111

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 111

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities.

Public and Social Policy 104

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation 104

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

“From Owing to Owning,” reads a sign at the entrance of Plaza 122, a 29,000-square-foot strip mall near the corner of SE 122nd Avenue and SE Market Street in Portland, OR. What makes the strip mall unique is its community ownership. Ownership is through a limited liability company.

Public and Nonprofit Management 93

Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 93

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status. Creating a Learning Community.

Health 100

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 100

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. Black Lives Matter or Pride Month marketing campaigns might lead us to believe these movements are attracting all the funding they need, but they are not.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 113

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Ohers suffered from short planning horizons or insufficient community outreach. Meanwhile, a proliferation of farmers markets fueled the local food movement but marginally addressed food access. The volunteers also shopped for land, investigating at least 14 different properties, and commissioned market analyses for many of them.

Food 101

Food Construction Public and Social Policy Governance 101

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Colorado’s Story Colorado is home to some of the country’s most favorable cooperative laws. Impact investment and non-bank financing from community development financial institutions also remain limited. They can invest in marketing to reach business owners who are ready to retire. Despite this growth, an estimated 24.7

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Finance Governance Culture 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Like Nussbaum’s framework for healthy context, researchers have developed comprehensive approaches applicable to individuals. Real progress seems elusive.

Philanthropy 125

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 125

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

15 Today’s economy places a premium on being able to access social networks to jump from job to job, which reinforces existing privilege, because the very definition of social networks in the job market depends on having connections in high places.

Public and Social Policy 72

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 72

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

How do we think about and tell a story where individual organizations and some of the leaders I write about are talking increasingly over the 1970s and the 1980s about markets, about market-oriented policies, about celebrating the private sector? They’re very proud of funding this public housing, little community security group.

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management 91

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

In a series of lawsuits, they generally demonstrated how unregulated enrollments, without enough campus housing, pushed students out into the city and shifted burdens for facilities onto the city; and private landlords converted single homes into “mini-dorms” to profit from the growing market.

Education 82

Education Education Universities Public and Nonprofit Management 82

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Without knowing history, you wouldn’t understand why Black people are more likely to experience homelessness and to struggle with rent, and you might think the free market, rather than a history of racist housing policies, was behind segregation.

Public and Social Policy 100

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 100